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f^NPERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 YEAR Government Economy Is FDR’sPlea Survey b y Depart ment Heads Directed By President for New Budgets Funds Sought for Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. Wa-hincton. August 9.—(AP)— p rt Jck'iit Roosevelt directed heads *,i' nment departments today to ui \ey “for the purpose of niprovements in adminis tration and economies in opera -11 Ir a letter to department heads, made public by Budget Director Harold Smith, the President said economic." in operation “undoubted ly could be put into effect in many government units.” *-I believe that substantial sav ings can be effected in the cost of government for this fiscal year and tin- succeeding fiscal years”, Mr. Roosevelt “and I wish to see such savings reflected in the ap portionment of appropriations for the current year, and in the sub mission of estimates for the fiscal year 1941.” Improvements in administration of government agencies, the Presi dent aid. can be affected “quite aside trom the ultimate need of fur ther basic reorganization.” The letter was dated August 7. Efforts to raise funds for con struction of a Roosevelt historical library it Hyde Park, N. Y., were under way among federal em ployees in Washington under the leadership of Commissioner G. Alien. Allen, commissioner in the District of Columbia government, said, however, “I want to emphasize that no pressure is being brought anywhere". Farmers Os Border Belt Like Prices Florence, S. C., Aug. 9.—(AP) —With four days of the 1939 auction selling season behind them, farmers of the Carolinas Border Belt voiced satisfaction with the tobacco market today and placed even better grades on the floors. Many of the growers in the belt were able to put more time on grading and curing, two fac tors which add to the price paid for the weed. A glimpse at the markets: Fair Bluff, 90,620 pounds for 18.72 average. Fairmont, 439,984 pounds, 19.05 cents average. (hadbourn, 133,066 pounds, 18.09 cents. Tabor City, 186,230 pounds, 18.32 cents. Sweeping Appeal For Peace Voiced From Jap Section Hong Kong, Aug. 9.—(AP) — A sweeping peace appeal, osten sible approved by the Japanese command, and including a prom ise of eventual withdrawal of Japanese troops on certain con dition-- was broadcast tonight by Wang thing-Wei, ex-premier of ( hina. now acting in concert with Japanese leaders. Sneaking |, y ra( jj o f rom the Japanese-held city of Canton, Mang told his fellow Cantonese a| ui ( hinese in general of peace assurances he had received from I( ‘ Japanese, including the com mander-in-chief in South China. ■ ( asserted that if Chinese lead ,,s would “declare publicly for i>' act- and oppose communism,” an immediate armistice could be arranged. FDR Man Is Ahead Now In Mississippi ’• *xJCZ&&m3Z y • ( >n, Mass., Aug. 9.—(AP) —• j | ' lf in of Mississippi’s next gover |l;’ '■ *'> may have something to say t, 1 Roosevelt’s third p anees, lay today between b. Johnson and Martin S. b-bi.' ) Conner. „ 1 f 1 Congressman Johnson for nr former Governor Con <y', yesterday’s primary in this ot •* , jUt k°th men were far in front f .. of seven gubernatorial 1 ,r ‘ ;ites - The pair must meet in a W l . primar y August 29. an ° r Ttl eodore Bilbo, frankly an "- 1 e ol a third term for Mr. w (Continued on Page Six) mvnuvtKtnx Haim Btapat th ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTttOAROLINA AND VIRGINLL * leased wire service op IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. i ftjftjft ■' ~i jHsKb ftft jftj I w > * flj 1 j|fl w* V 8 8 * if® 8 a,» ft 8 1 * \ M| IB sj S % II : m %v I'M ■JimBMB 8 BBMI.' 1 M m lyß • ranM 8" |H 8' I || W MSgm l 1 H mm im wmk\ 11118 $ |HHV 1 if mm ftftft < JnE 1 M ppK| - jaß ftp' I 1 " jft ftpPP; V 8 IftSRRI ft • ... - ; r M juft* ft m Richard W. Leche (left, black suit) arrives in New Orleans Federal Building to post SS,OfK) bond after being indicted in an alleged conspiracyto violate the “Hot Oil” Act. Beside him (right) is Louis Lesage, suspended o.*fic:al the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana, who with Seymour Weiss (extreme right) Uworgp Serb Guio& attorney for Weiss, is second from right. Cut Os 20 Percent In Tobacco Acreage For 1940 Proposed Two Army Airmen Perish In Crash Round Lake, N. Y., August 9. (AP) —A spectacular collision 2,000 feet in the air sent one of two United States army observa tion planes enroute to forth coming war maneuvers plum meting into a clump of trees near here today, killing two aviators. Army aviation officials iden tified the victims as Second Lieu tenant M. E. Thomas, of Hemp stead, L. 1., of the army air re serves, and Pilot A. R. Gerrity, of Scranton, Pa. Eye witnesses said the ships were flying in formation with one another when they sideswiped in mid-air. They left Mitchell Field, N. Y., this morning for Malon, N. Y., where the army’s planes are bivouacked for the maneuvers scheduled to begin at Plattsburg this week-end. A.&N.C. Line To Transfer September Ist Caily iiispatcTi Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, August 9. —This week’s meeting of directors and officers of the Atlantic and North Carolina (Mullet) Railroad will, in the ab sence of unlooked for complications,. clear the way for the interests headed by H. P. Edwards, of San ford, to take over operation of the line on September 1. The lease whereby the Mullet will pass from State to private operation has been signed by the lessors but not by the lessee (Edwards’ cor poration), the first installment of rental has not been paid and the agreed bond for faithful perfor mance of the lease has not been given, but there seems no valid reason why all these things should not be done at this week’s session. If done, the private corporation (Continued on Page Six) Gov. Hoey Speaker At Big Sniithfield Farm Celebration Smithficld, Aug. 9. —(AP)—Smith- field celebrated its first “larmers day” today, with Governor Hoey as honor guest. Around 7,500 persons watched events on the program, which in cluded the governor’s speech, a pa rade, contests in hog calling and hus band calling, a singing contest, a to bacco auction demonstration, a base ball game and a street dance. “Agriculture is the economic back bone of the great State of North Car olina,” said Governor Hoey. “Our State has made remarkable progress in agriculture in the past quarter of a century, and it is my firm convic tion thdt still greater progress lies ahead of us. The day is not far dis tant when North Carolina will yield to no other state in the diversity and value of its agricufture.” Fortner Governor Leche Posts Bond Growers Consider Suggestion Before Going Into Meeting With Buyers On 1939 Price Situation: 1940 Demand Is Question. Washington, Aug. 9. —(AP) A delegation of the South’s llue-cured tobacco growers, preparatory to a meeting with buyers of the leaf, call ed in to study 1939 prices, consider ed today a suggestion that next year’s acreage be reduced more than twen ty percent below 1939 acreage. * Although the acreage allotted for this year under the soil conservation act was only 880,000 acres, an esti mated 1,100,000 acres were planted, yielding a record crop in excess of 1,100,000,000 pounds. Under the proposal, the 1940 al lotment would be set at 800,000 acres, with a marketing quota based in or der to encourage compliance. If us ual yields resulted ,a crop of about 700,000,000 pounds would be pro duced. J. E. Thigpen, of the AAA tobacco section, said the ' growers’ proposal would be submitted to the buyers, with the hope some agreement could be worked out as to how large the 1940 crop quotas should be. He said any agreement should be beneficial . to this year’s prices. Meanwhile, the White House an nounced President Roosevelt had signed amendments to tobacco pro (Continued on Page Six) ATTORNEY RULES ON PAYMENT OF TAXES Raleigh, Aug. 9. — (AP) —Assistant Attorney General Wade Bruton to day ruled that the 1939 revenue ma chinery act permits a discount of on ly one-half of one percent for taxes prepaid in September. Fred P. Parker, county attorney for Wayne county, asked the ruling, and Attorney General Harry Mc- Mullan asked Bruton to handle the ruling. Hanes Business Optimism Conflicts With President By CHARLES F. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 9—Acting Treas ury Secretary John W. Hanes, in as serting that business is on the eve of a real forward John W- first-class economist, taut apparent he isn’t so crafty a politician, or HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 9, 1939 afternoon movement, evi dently didn’t real ize the full import of what he was predicting. It sounded like a reasonable pro phesy, to be sure. In fact, when Hanes broadcast it a few days ago, the market already was showing an upward tendency. He seems to be a Seeks Killing Job l|a ft -v ftljlf AbSSffr jftftftgM ' <x lft»|||f ■ \ \/ If i ! f ' I -v : . i Betty LaSalle Betty LaSalle, 21, of the Bronx, N. Y., a dentist’s assistant, applied for job as official executioner for Sing Sing Prison, citing experience with electrical appliances and abil- • ity to help pull teeth without faint ing. Rejected, she charged discrimi nation against women. Sen. Reynolds Runs Out On Labor Meeting Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, August 9.—North Caro lina’s roving U. S. Senator “Ramb lin’ ” Robert Reynolds has run out on the State Federation of Labor’s annual convention here next week and is, it appears, now somewhere on the bounding deep between New York and foreign shores, reported ly those of Mussolini-bounded Italy. Something like three weeks ago, the junior senator accepted an in vitation of the federation to make an at the opening session of the convention to be held at the Carolina Hotel here next week. As late as Tuesday morning, Salisbury’s President C. A. Fink had received (Continued on Page Six) maybe he isn’t a thorough newspaper reader. If he’d followed the papers closely, surely he’d have noticed that, about a week ahead of his ut terances, President Roosevelt had ac cused -Congress of killing an incipient ■ boom by shelving the neutrality leg islation he was boosting xor. So, we have the President serving ; notice that a boom, in the making, was “busted” by the lawmakers, and his acting treasury secretary, right on the heels of it, issuing a highly optimistic forecast. But the conflict between these two i statements conmotes more than a ■ mere difference of opinion. Nqyv Deal’s History. , The Roosevelt administration be gan with a New Deal program. Congress was very rubber stamp ish. Whatever the White House rec (Continued on Page Six) Bitter Internal Struggle In Japan Raging Over Question Os Alliance With Axis Group Tragedy Overtakes Show Os Britain’s War Powers Five-Man Bom be r Vanishes i n North Sea, Four Fliers Die In Crash and Four Bail Cut Third Plane; Defense Maneuvers Continue. London, August 9.—(AP)—Brit ain’s big show of air, sea and land power was marred today by aerial casualties—a five-man bomber vanished in the North Sea, four fliers died in a flaming crash, and four were forced to bail out of a third bombing plane. A check-up established that a Weellington bomber disappeared at 2:30 a. m. todu> and was believed to have plunged into ‘the sea east of Yarmouth. It was in rural Yorkshire that the four fliers died in a crash. . The four airmen who took to their parachutes over Thetford were slightly bruised. They had been or dered to jump by a flight sergeant, who himself stuck to the controls and landed the bomber with damage only to the under-carriage. The’ aerial exercises, a mythical struggle between “eastland” and “westland”, were resumed at dawn today with about 1,300 of Britain’s best war planes in action. Waves of “raiders”, about 500 planes in all, approached a secret target from the east. Weather conditions which favored the defenders last night turned high ly advantageous for the invaders, some of whom found concealment above low clouds. Ten Are Injured When Three Cars Meet at Winston Winston-Salem, August 9. (AP) —Ten persons were in jured, one seriously, in a collis ion of automobiles at the inter section of the Walkertown and Reidsville highways, east of here, today. Mrs. Charles Du ling, wife of the pastor of Bur-* gaw Baptist church, was ser iously hurt. She remained un conscious several hours after the accident. The minister and his two children, Charlotte, 10, and Jftmes, 5, also were Injured. They received cuts and bruises. Ernest James Walkertown, received cuts and internal in juries; Ed James, 9, and Roger James, 3, were cut and bruised. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Miller, Drewryville, Va., received cuts and bruises and possible inter nal injuries, and F. C. Clark, of Boston, Mass., received severe cuts and lacerations and pos sible internal injuries. Officers said cars driven by Duling and Miller collided and that the latter overturned the - third machine. Bus Station Program In £. Carolina Raleigh, August 9. —(AP) —An extensive program of building and remodeling bus stations is under way in this State, mainly in eastern North Carolina, Utilities Com mission officials said today. R. O. Self, chief clerk, said the commission had approved plans for three eastern stations and one in Salisbury. A newly-completed, bus terminal at Elizabeth City will be dedicated tomorrow,, he added. It represents an outlay estimated at SIO,OOO. * At Hertford and Edenton, plans call for remodeling the stations to cost $3,000 to $4,000 each. At Washington, N. C., plans for a new terminal call for about slo, 000 to $12,000 expenditure. Self did not know how long the work would take at Washington, Hertford and Edenton. Some time ago plans were ap proved for a new station at Beau fort. Construction has not yet been completed. (jJacdhsih FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; somewhat unsettled at times. Backed as War Lord ftfffftp- fig* 1 i Bill Jr ' & fj T2^gßßfl9 wgsajßHjjgß|k. a x&Hj&p * Lt. Gen. Rensuke Isogai Tokyo reports indicate Lt. Gen. Rensuke Isogai, army chief of staff in Manchukuo, will be named war minister. He would replace Lt. Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, who incurred the army’s disfavor by failure to press for immediate military alliance with Germany and Italy. (Central Press} Danzig Nazi Brings Word From Hitler Forster to Speak to Free City People To morrow Night on Con ference With Adolf Hitler; To Empha size Polish Threat. Free City of Danzig, August 9. (AP) —Danzig Nazi Leader Albert Forster is returned to the free city froim his latest conference with Fuehrer Hitler and will speak to citizens tomorrow night, it was an nounced today. Party leaders announced that For ster, as adjutant and the head of the Nazi district chancellory, had flown to Hitler’s mountain retreat and conferred with hirn there. On his return trip Forster «pcnt several hours in Prague yesterday on a private visit. He is expected to arrive in Danzig some time tonight. Whether Forster will bring a personal message from Hitler to Danzig citizens could not be learned. Parly officials said he was expected to emphasize in his address the “un bearable war threat of the Poles against Danzig.” The speech was scheduled to be gin at 8 p. m. (2 p. m., eastern standard time). French Agencies Accused of Aiding Smuggling to U. S. New York, August 9.—(AP) United States Attorney John Ca hill today forwarded to Secre tary of State Hull charges that the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs had permitted its diplo matic pouches to be used in the smuggling of commercial films into the United States. Cahill forwarded the charges at the request of the federal grand jury, which made its al legations in the form of a public presentment. The jury also charged that the French Government Tourist Bu reau, the French consulate in this city, the French Liner and its general manager, as well as eight other persons, were active in a scheme to evade payment of United States customs duties. 8 PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Cabinet May Fall Due To Resistance Rumors Are “Young Army Officers”, Urg ing Alliance With Germany and Italy, Have Threatened Lives of Opposing Ministers. Shanghai, Aug. 9.—(AP) —A bit ter internal struggle in Japan over whether the empire shall conclude an outright alliance with Germany and Italy, which may cause the fall of the Japanese cabinet, was described today by an informed traveler from Tokyo. This informant, in close touch with government and diplomatic quarters in Tokyo, said the situation there was extremely tense. Rumors were current that extreme nationalists had threatened the lives of cabinet mem bers, including Premier Baron Hira numa, Who were believed to be op posing the alliance. Its proponents were described as “young army officers”, majors, lieu tenant-colonels, and colonels, who demand an outright alliance with the totalitarian powei’s. This “open re volt” was expected to compel a show down from which results even more startling than the fall of the cabinet might come. (The “young officers” have been credited with dictating several major decisions in Japanese policy in re cent years, inclqding the conquest of Manchoukuo, the invasion of China and changes in domestic policy to put Japan on a war basis. A Tokyo dispatch today said that Lieutenant General Itagaki, war minister, had arranged to report to the emperor to morrow (Thursday) concerning the army’s attitude on current European developments. (Tokyo messages for the past week have told of a recrudescence of army (Continued on Page Six) Anti-British Move In China ) More Serious Hong Kong, August 9.—(AP) —The anti-British move in squth China took a more serious turn today with Japanese presentation to British naval and consular authorities of five demands growing out of injury of a Chinese at Swatow Mon day. The Chinese was one of a crowd engaged in an anti- British demonstration before the British consulate. Both British and Japanese versions of the incident said that after the demonstration started a party of sailors from the British de stroyer took of positions before the consulate. Germany To Enroll Most Os Citizens Berlin, August 9.—(AP) —Ger- many today directed a comprehen sive survey of her civilian power, men, women and children, to meqt any emergency which may menace the nation in the critical days ahead. While the program to establish a peak of preparedness by mid- August was stepped up, a gigantic card index of special talents of Ger mans was being prepared for the new civilian registration, ordered last night for next week. Only soldiers with service and persons less than five years old and more than 70 were excluded in the order for a vast survey of the abilities .‘and capacities of Germans. “We are squeezing the last drop of efficiency out of a nation which already has attained an impressive degree of all-round competence,” nne official commented. “Should there be an emergency calling on the Reich to exert itself to the utmost, every German man, woman and child will be at the post where he or she can perform the most effec tive service.”
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